It's not the "small cost" that's the issue... It's the charge for yet another thing that should be included in the high council tax we pay. These small bits here and there compound to make life's expenses accelerate beyond what we earn.
I have 5 green bins, collected every 2 weeks within my £3200/year council tax. Few around me would be happy with charges for this
It's not the "small cost" that's the issue... It's the charge for yet another thing that should be included in the high council tax we pay. These small bits here and there compound to make life's expenses accelerate beyond what we earn.
I have 5 green bins, collected every 2 weeks within my £3200/year council tax. Few around me would be happy with charges for this
My point was that I pay high council tax & accept that I am paying for services I don't need / use, that is paying into the general good. I am simply saying that others should do the same.
It is indeed... here in Ireland I'm about to pay my Local Property Tax, the equivalent of Council Tax. Its €258 for the year. But that doesn't include any sort of rubbish collection - we pay separately for that. I reckon it'll probably cost around €180 a year to have our rubbish and recycling collected. Charges for taking rubbish to the local tip are pretty steep, even for recyclables. And there's no collection of green waste at all; in addition, bonfires are illegal, so anything I can't compost (or shred, getting a shredder for Christmas, hooray!) will have to go to the tip - at a cost of €7 per bag.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
At OH's cottage in Norfolk the garden waste bin is emptied fortnightly for £45 a year. We don't use it much in winter but in summer it's not enough so we go to the tip as well. OH looked up what the Council Tax is used for and in that area in Norfolk most of it goes on social care, especially children and the elderly. We think that's a good cause.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
They put our council tax up between 2% and 4% every year to pay for the increasing number of old people who cannot pay for their own care.
Then they waste hundreds of thousands on getting famous people for Christmas lights switch on.
Then they want to charge even more for garden waste disposal.
Just getting rid of wasteful spending on on Christmas lights etc, they’d surely cover the cost. They really need to look at how they’re budgeting, but of course even though they are presumably paying their own CT, they don’t care about making the system better.
That's it exactly, they tighten screws on their constituents, £'s here and there, parking charges, bin charges, increasing fees at libraries, sports centres and so on while wasting hundreds of thousands on stupid schemes, road layouts, tourism promo, new buildings, art installations and so many other areas where the amounts of money spent would make you sick.
Here the council charge to collect garden waste and a brown wheelie bin to put it in. A few neighbours have it.But also we have a council tip that is free and there's different skips for different waste so we go there, it's not too far away.
Where I am the council collect pretty well everything kerbside for free - green and food waste, batteries, textiles, large items plus all the standard stuff. People still complain about their council tax though.
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I have 5 green bins, collected every 2 weeks within my £3200/year council tax. Few around me would be happy with charges for this
That's it exactly, they tighten screws on their constituents, £'s here and there, parking charges, bin charges, increasing fees at libraries, sports centres and so on while wasting hundreds of thousands on stupid schemes, road layouts, tourism promo, new buildings, art installations and so many other areas where the amounts of money spent would make you sick.